Facebook.com vs Instagram.com

Facebook, Inc. is an American based techonology company founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook is currently a top social media platform for sharing stories and memories which currently obtained over 2.38 billion users accross 180+ countries wordwide.

Facebook.com is a popular social networking and communication service launched on 4th February, 2004. It was established by Mark Zuckerberg with his school flat mates and few members of Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The site's participation was at first restricted by the professors of Harvard student, but it was later extended to different schools in the Ivy League, the Boston region, and gradually to most colleges in the United States/Canada corporations. By September 2006 it was issued to everybody with a valid email address including an age requirement of 13 years and above.

Acquisitions

• In August 2009, Facebook gained social media ongoing news aggregator FriendFeed, a startup made by Gmail's first engineer Paul Buchheit. 
• In February 2010, Facebook purchased Octazen Solutions, a Malaysian contact-fetching startup. 
• On April 2, 2010, Facebook reported securing of a photo sharing assistance called Divvyshot for an undisclosed amount. In June 2010, an online commercial center for exchanging private Facebook stock mirrored a valuation of $11.5 billion.
• On April 12, 2012, Facebook acquired Instagram, an image sharing application around $1 billion in real money and stock. 
• On March 8, 2013, Facebook declared that they acquired the group from Storylane, but not the product itself.
• On October 13, 2013, Facebook gained Onavo, an Israeli investigation organization, for roughly $120 million. 
• On February 19, 2014, Facebook declared its acquisition of WhatsApp, a smartphone instant messaging application for $19 billion out of a mix of stock and money. The purchase is the highest ever paid for a funding sponsored startup. 
• On March 25, 2014, Facebook reported they had obtained computer generated reality startup Oculus VR for $2 billion in real money and stock.
• In April 2020, Facebook, Inc. purchased a 9.9% stake in Jio, which was the most highest foreign direct interest in the Indian innovation sector.
• Access to Facebook is free of charge, and the company generates a large portion of its revenue from ads on the website.                

Instagram (generally abbreviated as IG or Insta) is an American photo and video sharing social networking platform owned by Facebook, founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and officially launched on iOS in October 2010. The Android version was delivered in April 2012, followed by a feature-limited desktop interface in November 2012, a Fire OS application in June 2014, and an application for Windows 10 in October 2016. The application allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and coordinated by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can be shared freely or with pre-approved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations and view trending content. Users can like photographs and follow other users to add their content to a feed, a function that seems to be discontinued as of September 2020. 

After its launch in 2010, Instagram quickly gained popularity, with 1,000,000 registered users in two months, 10 million in a year, and 1 billion as of June 2018. In April 2012, Facebook acquired the service for around US$1 billion in real money and stock. As of October 2015, more than 40 billion photographs had been uploaded. In spite of the fact that applauded for its impact, Instagram has been the subject of criticism, most prominently for policy and interface changes, allegations of censorship, and illegal or improper content uploaded by users. 

Instagram was originally recognized by only allowing content to be framed in a square (1:1) aspect ratio with 640 pixels to match the display width of the iPhone at that time. In 2015, these restrictions were eased with an increment to 1080 pixels. The service likewise added messaging features, the ability to include multiple pictures or videos for a single post, and a Stories feature-similar to its main opposition (Snapchat), which allows users to post photographs and videos on a sequential feed, with each post available by others for 24 hours each. As of January 2019, the Stories feature is used by 500 million users every day. 

As of January 2021, the most followed person is a footballer Cristiano Ronaldo who has more than 253 million followers. As of January 14, 2019, the most-liked photograph on Instagram is an image of an egg, posted by the account @world_record_egg, created with the sole purpose of surpassing the past record of 18 million likes on a Kylie Jenner post. The image presently has more than 54 million likes. Instagram became the 4th most downloaded mobile application around 2010.